Beast Mastery Hunter Artifact Weapon: Titanstrike – Legion 7.3.5

This section of the Beast Mastery guide explains the best possible choices for the Netherlight Crucible, important traits and relic bonuses, and how to progress through your artifact weapon Titanstrike. This guide is written by Bendak from Eyes of the Beast and the Hunting Party Podcast. Updated for the latest patch.

Relics and the Netherlight Crucible

The Netherlight Crucible has the power to turn a previously mediocre relic into a good one, if you get lucky with the trait options it randomly rolls. For this reason, it's a good idea to always preview a relic's potential traits before you use it or throw it away. With the opening of Antorus, il Trono Infuocato, it is now possible to obtain Fregio della Grande Armata, which increases the potency of your Tier 2 Crucible traits by 50%. It might be a really strong legendary if you are lucky with Netherlight Crucible rolls!

Since BM gets less value out of raw weapon ilevel upgrades than most other specs, traits play an important role. It's not always as simple as equipping your highest ilevel relics. The easiest way to value and compare a particular relic is to assign a Titanstrike ilevel value to each trait that can be on a relic or from the Netherlight Crucible. This lets you compare individual relics by simply adding up all the ilevel values of the traits.

Disclaimer: These values can change slightly based on your legendaries, tier bonuses, overall item level, and talent choices. If you have the knowledge, I recommend simming your own relic options since everyone's values will be slightly different. This is intended to help you quickly make relic and Crucible decisions, but it can never be 100% accurate for every character.

Single Target Trait Values

Based on this build. If you are using Aspetto della Bestia, the Kill Command traits will lose a little value and the Cobra Shot traits may gain some value. If you are using a Dire Frenzy build, the trait values are very similar.

AoE Damage Value of Traits

Spazzate Furiose and Sventure Oscure are trickier to put a number on since most of their value comes in pure AoE situations and their value also fluctuates with the number of targets. If you spend a good deal of your time in Mythic+ it can be worthwhile to have these traits on your BM Hunter Artifact, but not at major sacrifice to single target potential. It might be worth using a slightly less valuable single target relic if you get the added bonus of one of these AoE traits.

Another thing to consider is that the stat traits in Crucible tier 2, such as Luce Folgorante or Maestro delle Ombre have quite a bit more value than the the damage proc traits in cleave/AoE situations, despite them being relatively close on the single target lists. You should aim for these stat traits whenever possible.

Recommended Titanstrike Build Path

The BM Hunter Artifact needs to unlock its first 3 golden traits to reach its maximum potential, so you'll want to take the quickest path possible to that goal. It's as simple as going around the artifact tree in a clockwise motion, taking the shortest possible path to the golden traits. After that things get a bit more back and forth with the new patch 7.2 traits.

Tuono del Titano: A single target DPS cooldown (1 minute) that causes all of your active pets (including Bestia Feroces) to discharge electricity into their target for 8 seconds. It's always best to stack this with Ira Bestiale when possible. Also make sure you cast it immediately after casting Bestia Feroce to get its full benefit.

Impeto del Fulmine: Whenever you cast Tiro Multiplo, there is a 25% chance that your pet and Hati will explode with electricity, dealing nature damage to nearby enemies.

Comandante Cobra: Your Cobra Shot has a 10% chance to summon 2-4 snakes. These snakes melee attack your target for a trivial amount of damage, but they also apply Veleno di Assaltamorte. This trait is a small boost to single target DPS.

Selva Tonante: During Aspetto della Selva, your primary pet and Hati deal additional Nature damage with each melee attack. This bonus damage is dealt to all enemies in an 8-yard cone in front of the pets. This makes Aspect of the Wild a more potent cooldown than it was before.

Serpenti Sinuosi: Each point decreases the Focus cost of Cobra Shot by 2. This is a lot nicer than it looks on paper -- it improves the rotation noticeably.